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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Waking the Dead

For several nights, I have been sleeping late to download data recovery softwares that would try to recover important data from my external hard disk. I don't know why, but it cannot be detected by my computer, thus I could not retrieve some of my files. I'm a noob so I don't know how to use the software properly.

I never dropped it. Although I cannot really tell because the day before it went dead, I was out of the house and I left it on my bed. I don't know what happened during that time. 

There are processes to retrieve the data, that I know, but it would cost me money and time. Both of which I don't have. I tried several trial programs. I figured if one of these at least was able to detect my drive and assign a drive letter to it, I would at least purchase the program and try to revive my almost dead hdd. 

None seem to work.

What else could I do? 
Not only do I have to retrieve those files, I also need to buy another hdd. 
Oh bother!

2 comments:

  1. Tried it on a different computer? Or a different wire perhaps? Baka naman nagloloko lang yung wire.

    Noob my ***. A computer noob is something I wouldn't associate with you.

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  2. hahaha.. noob when it comes to recovering data. Yes, I've tried a different wire and on all computers here at home. It can't be detected in XP but appears unallocated (whatever that means) on Vista and Windows 7. I'm scouting for a new one while getting all the files recovered...hopefully it will get recovered I've read lots of blogs/sites/forums that say that it can be recovered 99-100% given a big amount or someone who knows how to do it...

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